The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
10 best books like The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital (Audrey Young): I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away, The Places in Between, The Overlook, Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, Savage Run, Angels Flight, Spies of the Balkans, Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to de-Junk Your Life!, A Drop of the Hard Stuff, The Water's Lovely
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted...
| Author | Rory Stewart |
| ISBN | 0156031566 |
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving...
| Author | Michael Connelly |
| ISBN | 0316018953 |
In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk...
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
| Author | Pope Brock |
| ISBN | 0307339882 |
In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the...
| Author | C.J. Box |
| ISBN | 0425189244 |
These are just so much fun and thought provoking too.
C.J. (Cracker Jack?) Box delivers his second Joe Pickett novel in this 2002 publication and follows up on his first with some TASTY environmental thriller action.
For those readers who don’t know yet about the coolest thing this...
| Author | Michael Connelly |
| ISBN | 0446607274 |
An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old...
| Author | Alan Furst |
| ISBN | 1400066034 |
Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece--the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and tavernas, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border,...
Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to de-Junk Your Life!
| Author | Don Aslett |
| ISBN | 1593373295 |
I really liked this book. I didn't even realize that I was reading a book written in the 80's until it said "You can make a video of all of your photos and then toss them out if you want. It is projected that most households will have video tape players by the year 1990." Ha ha.
So anyways, it is TIMELESS....
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0316127337 |
Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics...
| Author | Ruth Rendell |
| ISBN | 0307381366 |
The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue.
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream...
"Friendship comes at a cost. For beautiful Mary-Ann Walker, who struggled with the challenges of a difficult family history, that cost proves to be her life. With Mary-Ann's past as its only guideline, the Seattle homicide unit must delve into the relationships between a misguided young woman and...
| Author | Leslie Glass |
| ISBN | 0451195507 |
This fourth thrilling crime novel featuring Asian-American NYPD Detective April Woo places her in an double-murder investigation involving race, class, sex, and a parasitic media eager to make sensational headlines. The beautiful wife of a former pro football player is found dead alongside her...
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion
| Author | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| ISBN | 0226174441 |
This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries...
From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man’s search for a missing young woman with history’s most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and unforgettable, here is a spellbinding mix of the mysteries that inhabit our everyday...
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living
| Author | Martin Clark |
| ISBN | 0375707093 |
In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south.
Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the day’s docket...
| Author | Michael Pearce |
| ISBN | 1590580249 |
Cairo, 1910. Captain Owen, The Mamur Zapt, is the head of Egypt's Political CID in the heyday of British Rule. He is ultimately responsible for law and order in the Khedive's Cairo. When the rules, whether obvious or hidden, are flouted, he steps into action although it sometimes looks like he's merely...
| Author | Linda Fairstein |
| ISBN | 0743436687 |
From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying new thriller rich with the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can offer.... It's going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case,...
| Author | John S. Marr |
| ISBN | 0061097632 |
Two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistent in the United States. Within hours, thoroughbreds at the legendary Churchill Downs are dying of a virus that cannot be identified, even by the most expert veterinarians. Called in to solve these lethal mysteries, noted virologist Jack Bryne discovers...
